Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part, Pinochet vowed not to go quietly. Wearing a crisp dress-white uniform, the general accepted "the verdict of the majority" but pledged "to complete my mandate with a patriotic sense." He buttressed the point by refusing to accept the resignation of his 16-member Cabinet, which then agreed to stay...
Last year residents of Cicero, a Chicago-area community notorious for its racism, called the police to report that a black man was impersonating a police officer, wearing a police uniform and driving a squad car. That was patrolman Wesley Scott, the town's first and only black policeman. Almost ! daily, he endures racial insults and humiliation, not only from the people he has sworn to protect but also from some of his fellow officers upon whom his life may depend...
...margin requirements on the use of credit to make investments should be uniform for options, futures and their underlying securities. For any of these instruments, investors should have to put up at least 50% of the purchase price. Current margins range from 50% for stocks to as little as 5% for some types of futures. Speculation will be dampened if speculators have more of their own capital at risk...
...problem for the Chiefs. For a week their tenor and baritone have been battling colds. The tenor popped antibiotics and hunkered in a sauna. Maybe the lack of hard practice helps. In gray tuxes, they captivate the crowd with a medley of lilting love songs. Vowels echo rich and uniform down the darkened rows of fellow singers. Their voices have caught the elusive bird, and the overtone rings clear and shrill. Afterward, as they pace backstage awaiting results, someone is afraid that they missed the real essence. The judges disagree and give them first prize...
...Gonna Throw It: Senior wide receiver Neil Phillips had his finest day in a Harvard football uniform. Phillips, twice a co-MVP on the men's basketball team, snagged a career-high eight passes for 114 yards. He caught a 9-yd. touchdown pass and also ran a reverse for 16 yards. Phillips has now run the end-around six times in his career for a net of 46 yards. A high school quarterback, he has yet to throw the ball...